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NOVEMBER 23, 2016

That’s a contradiction, considering that professors stress a culture of sharing in their research, says Derek Bruff, director for the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University. “We It requires cultural change,” says Kathy Fernandes, senior director for learning design and technologies at the CSU office. But there’s no standards.” “It

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JUNE 10, 2019

Gaining confidence can be elusive to those of us in higher education, since academic culture can often subtract from our confidence, instead of building it up." Gaining confidence can be elusive to those of us in higher education, since academic culture can often subtract from our confidence, instead of building it up.

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MARCH 13, 2025

2002) noted that under the current system, if a professor does change a course based on student evaluations, the students who made these comments do not have the opportunity to experience the changes, and that of course reinforces the idea that faculty ignore student evaluations (p. Sojka et al. References Chapman, D.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Jett spoke in the interview about the ways in which course evaluations contained biases and were not always helpful in informing her teaching approaches. This kind of a cultural shift takes time, and it often results in some resistance. “To

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MARCH 13, 2025

2002) noted that under the current system, if a professor does change a course based on student evaluations, the students who made these comments do not have the opportunity to experience the changes, and that of course reinforces the idea that faculty ignore student evaluations (p. Sojka et al. References Chapman, D.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

It's a very simple mechanism — it’s a cultural confirmation bias. … For instance, in course evaluations I seek out negative reviews. So we end up, even though 96 percent of the course evolutions were all positive, the 4 percent really is something that caused me to ruminate. And that's called the negativity bias.

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MARCH 17, 2017

In the course evaluations at the end of the semester they write that our class has really formed a community,” she says. Cheryl Bonsall, a former student in the course, says that delivering her responses by video rather than writing "made me more accountable for my words and my message."

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